About me

I am currently a Postdoc in the School of Data Science, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, hosted by Prof. Daoyuan Wu in the AIS2 Lab.

My research interests lie in Software Engineering and Cybersecurity, with a focus on Smart Contract Security, Vulnerability Detection and Repair, and Conformance Testing.

Experience

• Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Data Science, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 2026 – Present

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, 2026
• B.S. in Educational Technology (Teacher Education Track), Nanjing Normal University, 2019

Publications

* indicates co-first author; ^† indicates corresponding author

• Are Static Analysis Tools Still Working during the Evolution of Smart Contracts? A Comprehensive Empirical Study [DOI] [PDF]
  Cuifeng Gao, Ao Chen, Chengze Wu, Wenzhang Yang, Jiaming Ye, Yinxing Xue^†. TOSEM 2025
• Rust-doctor: Enhanced Feature for Rust Ownership and Lifetime Repair with Balanced Training Data Generation [DOI] [PDF]
  Wenzhang Yang*, Xiaoning Ren*, Cuifeng Gao, Yinxing Xue^†. Findings of EMNLP 2025
• Towards Automated and Accurate Understanding of ARINC Standard in Heterogeneous Data Formats [DOI] [PDF]
  Cuifeng Gao, Wenzhang Yang^†, Xianchang Luo, Yinxing Xue. QRS 2025
• Flash Loan Attack Is More Than Just Price Oracle Manipulation: A Comprehensive Empirical Study [DOI] [PDF]
  Cuifeng Gao, Jiajun Ye, Wenzhang Yang^†, Yinxing Xue. QRS 2025
• Rust-twins: Automatic Rust Compiler Testing through Program Mutation and Dual Macros Generation [DOI] [PDF]
  Wenzhang Yang, Cuifeng Gao, Xiaoyuan Liu, Yuekang Li, Yinxing Xue^†. ASE 2024
• sGuard+: Machine Learning Guided Rule-based Automated Vulnerability Repair on Smart Contracts [DOI] [PDF]
  Cuifeng Gao, Wenzhang Yang, Jiaming Ye, Yinxing Xue^†, Jun Sun. TOSEM 2024

Academic Service

Journal Reviewer

• ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
• Cybersecurity (Springer)